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If people start paying attention, that is a threat to the status quo. I mean, Congress has upped its own budget for the past 6 years and alsos voted itself very significant pay raises on top of all the perks, at a time when real wages for working and middle class Americans have stagnated.
Because it would be so different with a Republican majority...The current democratic party leadership in control of congress is only interested in pushing their agenda. They don't care about the american people at all. If we have the chance to read their bills before they pass them, they know the population wouldn't accept their radical agenda.
This congress doesn't intend to represent anything other then the platform of the democratic party. Nothing else. If you don't like it, they expect you to sit down and shut up.
Because it would be so different with a Republican majority...
Because it would be so different with a Republican majority...
No, the point is not to keep the cycle going.oh come on what the hell is that supposed to mean? just give up, and lain down and kill ourselves so we can have th United States of Liberalmerica?
the republicans are bad, so that completely justifies evey bad thing the democrats do.
then a couple of years from now we get...well the democrats are bad so that completely justifies the bad things republicans do.
yeh, thats just a wonderfull way to look at government.
here's an idea, vote against encumbents, regardless of party. I know i graduated from a Louisiana high but even their they thought us that elected representatives are supposed to represent the people of their districts first, not their party platform.
But i guess that doesn't matter because a couple of years a ago a republican did something stupid, and before a democrat did someting stupid, a before that republican did something stupid, and before a democrat did something stupid... and on and on and on.
just keep the cycle going right? thats all that really matters right? keep everything defined strictly in partisan terms instead of holding elected leaders accountable to the best interestes of the voters.
No, the point is not to keep the cycle going.
But you just did it.
You just made it partisan, about the Democrats, which invites the same good cop/bad cop routine that distracts us while they BOTH pick the public's pocket.
It's an institutionalized system of theft based on a contrived left/right eternal battle for public consumption, based on divisive emotional issues, while the lobbyists and politicians are in on the joke.
The cycle is only going to get broken when you tune out the rhetoric, outlaw money into the system and start voting for people based on the soundness of their ideas in conjunction with evaluation of what they actually do, not what they say.
A nice shortcut might be to start voting for ugly and awkward people because the blow-dried, square jawed, confident guys from central casting just keep screwing it up.
Just pass the law where all bills have to be posted for a certain amount of time before they are voted on. That will take the partisanship out of it.
the whole point of the OP was that the current party in power is blocking such a law.
Again, my friend, good cop/bad cop.Their resolution has 129 co-sponsors and the discharge petition reportedly has more than 175 signatures. But they are bucking the odds. No matter which party has been in power, that party has resisted changing the rule while the minority party led the charge to change it.
I know, I was just trying to make Adder see that this wasn't a partisan post.the whole point of the OP was that the current party in power is blocking such a law.